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Excerpt from Aristotle's Psychology: A Treatise on the Principles of Life (De Anima and Parva Naturalia) Translated With Introduction and Notes The comparative inaccessibility of the Parva naturalia (they exist in English only in Taylor's paraphrase) has induced me to prepare an English version of these important tractates. To this I have added a translation of the De anima, in order that English readers might have in a single volume a practically complete account of Aristotle's psychological theories. Such a work seemed to me to be all the more necessary at the present time in view of the need of available primary sources for historical research in philosophy and psychology. An adequate history of psychology has not as yet been written. The translation of Aristotle's works, owing to their crabbed Greek, their puzzling lacunae and breviloquence, - oftentimes they are almost unintelligible jottings intended, perhaps, for lecture-notes or for later elaboration which they never received, - has at no time been regarded by scholars as an easy or attractive task. It is only their immense historical significance and the intrinsic value of their content that could induce one now-a-days to set hand to the work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.